RA Collection: People and Organisations
The Golden Cockerel Press was an English fine press operating between 1920 and 1961.The private press made handmade limited editions of classic works. The type was hand-set and the books were printed on handmade paper, and sometimes on vellum. A feature of Golden Cockerel books was the original illustrations, usually wood engravings, contributed by artists including Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings, Peter Claude Vaudrey Barker-Mill, John Buckland Wright, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Agnes Miller Parker, David Jones, Mark Severin, Dorothea Braby, Lettice Sandford, Gwenda Morgan, Mary Elizabeth Groom and Eric Ravilious.
Cecil Stewart
Topiary : an historical diversion / with colour-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill - London: 1954
10/3059
R. H. Mottram
Strawberry time and the banquet / by R. H. Mottram - London: 1934
15/2109
Franz Toussaint
The garden of caresses / translated from the arabic by Franz Toussaint: now rendered into English by Christopher Sandford - England: 1935
15/2108
Simon Gantillon
Maya : a play / by Simon Gantillon ; paraphrased into English by Virginia & Frank Vernon ; with XIII wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton - Berkshire: 1930
15/2424